If you have your own business, you should be looking at what you can do to promote it online.  Even if you don’t have an Internet  Business, more and more of your prospective clients go online first to find information and services. Even for local services.

So, if you have any kind of business at all, you should be seriously looking at what you can do to promote it online.  If you don’t ,  your competitors soon will be!

eBay is the easiest way for you to get started promoting your business online.

But, eBay is just one big yard sale right? It’s not the sort of place that a “real world” business can operate?

Wrong.  eBay is your route to getting lots of interested prospective clients to learn all about your business and how you can help them better than your competition can.

eBay is one of the busiest commercial sites on the internet. They have spent huge amounts of time and money getting millions of visitors a day to come visit their site.

Many of those visitors are going to be interested in the type of service or product you provide.

An eBay Classified Ad can be run, at time of writing, for $9.95 for 30 days. Write an effective ad, with the right  message, and using the right keywords, and you can get 100’s or 1000’s of prospective clients viewing your ad.

How would that compare to the cost of advertising in a newspaper or trade journal for the same time? How does the return on investment from your print advertising budget compare to that?

That can also be much cheaper than running a pay per click Adwords campaign online, and is way easier when you are just getting started.

Your prospects don’t even have to be eBay users, with the right keywords in your title, your ad will be high on the Google listings thanks to the “eBay effect”.

Have a look at the video below, where Jim Cockrum is talking about what you can do with eBay Classified Ads. Jim is one of the most respected Internet Marketer’s in the Business, and here he is talking about what you can do for an Online Business.

Then have a think what you could do with eBay Classified Ads in your own business. The most effective use of an eBay Classified Ad is to grow your list of clients.

If you run a Hotel you can run a Classified Ad  offering a Free Guide to Planning a Very Special Vacation in your area. To get it the prospective client just has to give you their Name and eMail Address, via an OptIn form on the Ad.

Also send out an email Newsletter using AWeber.com, include lots of info on special events in your area, and special offers for them to come stay in your hotel.

A Tax Accountant can offer a free report on the 10 best ways to save money when filling out your tax return.  Send a friendly email reminder well in advance of the Tax Return due date, along with a special offer on your Accounting Services.

The possibilities are endless…

Dave Christie

Here is Jim Cockrum, one of the most respected Internet Marketers in the Business, talking about the most effective uses of eBay Classified Ads.